Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-22
, COMING IohEucus.

COMING TO AsUcus.
ssailroad Lines Projected into Hapkton
STOW Signs of an lntenIion to Ma
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Central and the
Manitoba.
TgE TLpINoTs oENTsAIs
Changes upon the railroad checker
board have again brought TO the front
the Yankton LeMars project of the
Illinois Central. Our Oldest infc.ma-
ton Gomez in q letter from Commodore
Coulson, written at Chicago on the t20th
inst. Tue commodore called upon Gen
eral Manager Jeffrey on that day. Mr..
Jeffery said he had ordered Mr.. Gilleas
to make another survey from LIE Mars
to Yankton, as the company could not
accept the Rice survey, on account OF
heavy grades near the Big Sioux-ifty-
six feet to the mile. III this grade is re.
duced by the new survey the road will
be built. The company expects a dona-
tion of the right OF way
over the entire extension. Manager
Jetfery told Commodore Coulson that
he would start for Yankton in about ten
days DULY 30th) accompanied by Mr..
Tucker, and other general officers. The
Central people would like to have Yank-
ton furnish a local surveyor familiar
with the country and this the board of
trade will do. The coming of these gen.
ersl officers to Yankton will doubtless
mean business.
There has been o change in plans rela-
tive TO the construction OF the Cherokee
and Sioux Falls line. Yesterday was the
day for letting the construction contracts
and they we're not let. On the contrary
they we're indefinitely postponed. a
telegram received to-day by the board OF
trade aud Colonel Powers from T.. e.
Carpenter runs as follows:
LeMars, lowe, July 22-The Cherokee
and Sioux Falls letting has been indefi-
nitely postponed. Gllleas is coming
looking over the Yankton line. How
does LeMars via Calliope TO Yankton
and Sioux Falls, ia miles, strike you
Il OuT DUuLllbGEo lC slill AL ShACaBos
This dispatch is interpreted to mean
that the line from Cherokee to Sioux
Falls has been abandoned and that the
Central has projected a line from LIE
Mars to Calliope and from Oaliope south.
westward to Yankton and northward to
Sioux Falls. This wonld accomplish both
extensions with much less trackage and
avoid the heavy grades upon the Yauk-
ton surveys via Wessfela or Akron. Il
will take the Yankton line slightly nortt
from q direct course, but the additional
distance would place the main line 81
much nearer to Sioux Falls. A press
telegram from Cherokee, dated the slst
says:
1t was announced last week that til,
contracts for building the Sioux Fall
branch of the Illinois Central railwa,
would be let to-day and there were som
twenty-five 10 forty contractors on hant
to bid on the work, but owing to tn
fact that the towns between Cherokee
and Sioux Falls had failed to fulfill-thei
, promises 10 furnish station grounds ant
right-o1-way, which they had made tt
the company at the beginning OF thu
survey, and also owing to the latenes
OF the season the superintendent an
nounced that the building of the brancl
had been indefinitely postponed. Super
! intendent Gilleas lett here tonight TO
, LeMars, it is Supposed to look over tn
line between LeMars and Yankton.
MIR. Gilleas will probably be in Yank
!. ton ahead of the general officers and tn
r surveying party. The new line is tn
{ most practicable one. suggested an
! there is reason to believe that it wi
eventually be followed.
: THE MANITOBA.
!. 1t is no longer q secret that some thre
Q weeks ago a prominent general officer G
the Manitoba system reached Yankte
/, via the overland route in his own con
! veyance and accompanied by q campin
! outfit. He tarriea here q week lookins
the country hereabouts over and con
ferring with the board OF trade. Leavini
9 here he penetrated Nebraska and care
! fully examined the southwestWard rout
: as far as Fullerton, on the Union Paciti
4 road. From there he went by rail t
0 st. Paul and his teams returned t
Yankton in charge of @. O. Ander3ol
arriving last night. THIS official wi
s again be in Yankton Tomorrow, on b
n return from o conference with Nr. Hi
to whom he has made q full report. FL
second coming is supposed
be for the purpose
making come definite arrangeme,
for the construction of the Manitoba in
this section-probsbly for an ~extensio
g. from SIOUX Falls sontnwestward. Itlool
as though the fall and eerly wlnt
gould be full of railroad construction
- importance to Yankton.
in ANEW DEPOT.
Id Replying to q letter from the Yanktt
81 board OF trade Superintendent Beard
ley, of the Milwaukee, expresses himse
ID strongly IN favor of a new depot and ee
IN ing house at Yenkton. He has recon
o. mended the improvement to the mauae
IT, .nent Of the board.
A IMPRINT.
A special to the Sioux City Joarr
from Huron says:
A large number OF men q
teams passed through here "a dgy or t.
since on their way to Ynnkton to VIC
e. on the Northwestern extension fri
"A that town to Gettysburg.
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